Page 83 of Another Night With Me

“Tryna kill yo’ family for a little bit of money, Psst. I never would have expected that from yo’ pussy ass.” Titon snickered.

“Fuck you nigga. Ion know what the fuck yo’ weird ass talking about,” Sonni spat glaring at Titon. The tension between the two of them was always thick. Sonni would never go into detail about his issue and Titon always said he didn’t like any nigga that didn’t like him.

“So you ain’t put A’milli on our heads?” Ya’ asked grilling Sonni, who couldn’t even look him in his eyes.

Sonni opened his mouth to speak but Titon cut him off.“Befo’ yo’ bitch ass lie, you know A’Milli been my nigga for years.”

Sonni kissed his teeth, as he peered up at me. “Come one Niko, you know me I ain’t that nigga to do some shit like that.” Sonni tried to seem sincere but the subtle smirk on his lips said other wise.

“A few years ago I woulda thought that too. I can’t deny what my own ears heard.” I replied emotionless. My feelings had gone numb.

“Wwhat you mean?” Sonni fearfully stuttered.

I looked over at Titon, who’d pulled a burner phone from his pocket pressing play. He allowed the audio call between A’Milli and Sonni to play.

“I want all them bitch ass niggas dead,” Sonni angrily yelled into the phone. “They think I’m a bitch ass nigga I got something for their asses.”

A’Milli’s eerie voice replied. “I’m not cheap,”

“I got the fucking money,” Sonni replied evilly.

Then Titon cut off the recording glaring at Sonni as he asked, “That’s not you?”

Sonni rested his head back on his seat looking forward, his facial expression went blank. All of us, silent waiting on the next move to be made.

Out of nowhere Sonni began laughing crazily. “It took y’all ho’ ass niggas long enough to figure this shit out. I shoulda just killed you bitch ass niggas myself.” He said with an uneasy expression on his face.

“You wanted to kill us and yo’ niece for some bread?” I snapped, losing my cool. “All the shit we did for you ungrateful ass. We got it out the mud so yo’ bitch ass could have an easy life and this how you wanna repay us? You wanna take our lives?” In my rage I punched Sonni through the window with my free hand. His body went flying towards the passenger side of the car.

It took Sonni a moment to get back up but I was so mad I had tears falling from my face. I couldn’t believe Sonni was really going out like this.

“Fuck y’all niggas! Long Live King mutha fuckin’ Sonni!” Sonni yelled as he leaned forward reaching for something.

When I saw the shiny metal handle of the gun, I lifted my gun up letting off three shot as tears rolled down my face. Damn Sonni…

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Back To Present Day

Niko Freeman

“Our mama and our brother really tried to kill our asses,” I shook my head looking at Ya’ as we stood on my back porch.

“Jealousy is a mutha fucka,” Ya’ chuckled.

“It ain’t like we had shit they couldn’t have,” I sighed taking a drink of my beer in hand.

“You wrong. They could never have what we have because they wanted our shit not to have shit of their own. They would have never been happy because it would have never been exactly what we have.”

“You right,” I nodded in agreement.

I felt what Ya’ was saying but at the same time, it was a hard pill to swallow knowing the lengths they went to try to take from us. They had been planning this shit from the get go. From faking Sonni tearing his ACL, to planting Maddie, Colleen,Will, Riker, Gretchen and whoever else went for that shit. The time they spent planning and plotting to take us out the game they could have had their own shit in motion. I can’t say I was that surprised that our mama had been the ringleader. When I really thought about it, that was the only thing that made sense. Our mama and Sonni were two peas in a pod. The only person he ever listened to aside from me. Hearing our mama say she hated all of us hurt but I learned to let that shit go. Pricilla was never one of those mama’s who really gave a fuck about us. I learned a long time ago to stop expecting certain shit from her. She was a fucked up ass individual that corrupted everything she came into contact with.

Her words still ran through my mind when she said this wasn’t over yet. Although things had been calm since she was killed my head was still on swivel. She could have been bluffing but I rather be safe than sorry.

“You been watching Titon?” Ya’ asked, looking at me out of the corner of his eye.

“Yeah,” I sighed solemnly.